Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday Aug. 26, 1915 [August 26, 1915] Wea [Weather] 
C. [Caroline Brewster] returned to Camb. [Cambridge] fr. [from] Williamstown Perfect.
Brilliantly clear & deliciously cool
with fresh, bracing N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Heard migrating Warblers chirping
frequently at 9:30 last night but could
find only three in woods to-day & one
of these a D. virens [Dendroica virens]. The other two, together
in oaks & birches in Birch Field, were
Bay-breasts [Bay-breasted Warbler], both evidently young of this
year, one showing barely a trace, the
other a faint but decided wash, of bay
on the flanks. 6 Robins (4 ad. [adult], 2 young so
feeble-winged they could fly only a few yards)
a Barn Swallow south bound, a Song Sparrow,
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] and a Goldfinch, an Oriole,
a few Crows & a Jay were literally the
only small local breeding birds seen or heard.
3 full-grown young Partridges flushed by
"Tim" in Berry Pasture alighted in bushes
within 10 yards & stared at me sev. [several] minutes
Heard several Cicadas.
  Spent most of A.M. putting rustic
house in order for storing fruit. In P.M.
picked blueberries with Burbank.
C. returned to Cambridge from Williamstown.

Concord (Farm) - Cambridge
Migrants in Camb. [Cambridge] Garden.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday Aug. 27, 1915 [August 27, 1915] Wea [Weather] 
Fair
Cold night followed by warmish day with Southerly wind
Sunny but very hazy & also somewhat cloudy.
  Spent forenoon out of doors at Farm, picking
peaches & plums, pruning & propping fruit trees etc.
not many birds. Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing brokenly, Least 
Flycatcher calling whit in orchard, [male] ad [adult] & [female] Maryland
Yellow-throat among weeds near hen house.
  Left farm at 1:45 & motored to Cambridge via
Carlisle Bridge, Bedford, Lexington & Trapilo Road [Trapelo Road].
Saw almost no birds save House Sparrows.
  Reached home about 3 P.M. finding C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
there. Garden alive with birds. Spent fully an
hour following them about, opera glass in hand,
tormented by swarms of ravenous mosquitos.
Keeping mostly to birch grove was interesting little
party of migrants made up of 6 Bay-breasted
Warblers (1 ad. [adult] [male] with jet black wings & tail & much
bay on flanks & 5 young with little or almost no bay)
a [female] Mniotilta, a young Canadian Warbler (keeping
somewhat apart from rest among shrubbery at rear
of Museum), an Empidonax which looked like
flaviventris [Empidonax flaviventris] but was not certainly identified.
Besides those were several Robins, 2 Jays, a
Flicker, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] (heard), an ad. [adult male] Goldfinch, a Redeye [Red-eyed Vireo],
a Sparrow hawk (on wing), a flock of about
100 Starlings flying low westward followed, a 
minute later, by 3 more; at sunset 20
Swifts (counted) circling high & evidently
feeding, among them several young birds with
short wings & fluttering flights : Also a few H. Sparrow [House Sparrow]
Thus I noted in all sixteen species
  Spent evening in hall with C. & E.R.S.
We read war news & played Victrola.